Saturday, July 11, 2015

Garden Views And First Nations Art

The Delegation building stretches out beyond the atrium, featuring conference rooms, a resource library, and office space, as well as private quarters for the Aga Khan when he's in Canada. While the Aga Khan is not strictly speaking a statesman, he has extensive contacts with heads of government. This courtyard garden is another element of the design of the property; it's well cared for and quite peaceful.

Taken from a walkway above the central atrium, this gives a closeup of one of the screens hanging from above.

Close by is the only artistic display on the premises. This is a headpiece by First Nations artist Bill Reid, one of the same figures incorporated into his Spirit Of Haida Gwaii.

By the way, a quick note to those I follow on Facebook. That site seems to find it hilarious to suspend me for a month for a comment that didn`t violate their code of conduct, while letting white supremacists, bigots, and people committing slander get away with saying whatever they want. Needless to say, I'm not impressed with Zuckerberg and his precious social networking site at the moment.

@Norma: if Zuckerberg were on life support right about now, I'd unplug him and charge a phone.

@Ciel: you're most welcome! I might end up writing a blog about it over in my writer's blog... perhaps for a week from today. My next two blogs there are already written, but if I do, I'll make note of it here.

@EG: I also wonder if jade would be way too expensive- even small pieces are pricy, and this was big.

@Denise: this has been the third time this year, and of course Facebook never responds or allows any avenue of appeal.

@Mike: I will be in touch this evening.

@Joan: it bothers me that I can't even post links for my posts there. It's one thing to be turfed out of, say, a media's comments, but to be out a month, sufficed to say there's no way to catch up after that long.

@Geoff: so do I.

@Linda: from the comment in question, it was one of two people, both of whom are reprehensible trolls and hyperpartisan twits who spend most of their online time shilling for the current federal government. I'll be blogging about it at my writer's page on the weekend.